Wiki Practice

Instructions: Go to http://www.wikispaces.com/ and sign-in.

Exercise #1: Create a new wiki.

Exercise #2: Create a title at the top of the wikipage homepage. Give it a heading setting.

Exercise #3: Create a heading for a video clip. Embed a video into the wikipage.

· Matt Cutts “How Search Works” YouTube Video - http://youtu.be/BNHR6IQJGZs
· PBS NOVA – How to Make Stuff – Stronger - http://video.pbs.org/video/1701025927
· CNN - Any video from this site - http://www.cnn.com/video/

Exercise #4: Create a new wikipage. Embed a glogster into it.

· Biology Glog - http://mzhumz.edu.glogster.com/cell-library/
· History Demo - http://mzhumz.edu.glogster.com/colonial-demo/

Exercise #4: Create two text links. Make sure they open in a “New Window.”

· New York Times - http://www.nytimes.com/
· The Wall Street Journal - http://online.wsj.com/home-page
· National Geographic - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
· Library of Congress - http://www.loc.gov/

Exercise #5: Upload a Word Document. Upload a Power Point Presentation.

Exercise #6: Insert an image of an animal from Google Images. Paste the URL in the citation for the picture.
· http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi

Exercise #7: Link the animal image to the Wikipedia article about that animal.

Exercise #8: Create a new wikipage. Embed a Google Doc into it.
https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AelvjJuzuxW4ZGRmenN4dm1fNTRmdHZ6N2hkYg&hl=en&
authkey=CJjL98cF